The second season of FX’s American Horror Story is starting to take shape. New details on the Season 2 setting, time-period, and additional returning cast members have emerged.

Here’s what was revealed about AHS Season 2 at the TV Academy in North Hollywood..

The Premise

Co-creator Ryan Murphy reiterated that Season 2 of the FX serial-anthology will be set in an East Coast Mental Institution:

“[Season 2] is set on the East Coast at an institution for the criminally insane that is run by Jessica.”

Murphy also confirmed the foreshadowing second season clue planted in Season 1:

“[It was] something that Sarah Paulson’s character, Billie Dean, says to Jessica and Taisa as she’s sage-ing the house and talking about places where evil collects: We talk about institutions and prisons and things like that. That was the clue.”

“The idea is to work with actors that you love and are excited by. The second season, everybody who was announced, there will be other people up on this stage who are not announced who will also be in it but are playing the polar opposite of what they were in the first season in every way,”

Who’s New?

Here’s what Murphy had to say about Adam Levine‘s Season 2 role:

“He’s a sexy guy so he needs to play a sexy guy, but the guy that is different than who you think he would play. I pitched him the part and he listened, slack jawed, and simply said, ‘I’m in.’ The second season is fun, sexy and baroque. It has a lot of meat to it; it’s a really gritty part. He’s with a girl and they play characters called The Lovers.”